PRAXIS 5047 MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH
CERTIFICATION REVIEW SCRIPT 2026
ACCURATE Q&A COLLECTION
◉reciprocal teaching. Answer: Includes four main reading strategies
for comprehending text: Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying,
Summarizing; students take turns assuming the role of teacher;
group effort among teacher and students to bring meaning to text
◉semantic feature analysis. Answer: A graphic organizer using a
grid to compare a series of words or other items on a number of
characteristics.
◉collaborative writing. Answer: instructional approach in which
students work together to plan, draft, revise, and edit compositions
◉process writing. Answer: An approach to writing where learners
are encouraged to brainstorm, plan, draft, re-draft, review, and
"publish" their written work.
,◉RAFT. Answer: a writing strategy that helps students understand
their ROLE as a writer, the AUDIENCE they will address, the varied
FORMAT for writing, and the TOPIC they'll be writing about
◉3-2-1 prompt. Answer: 3 facts
2 questions
1 personal connection
◉stream of consciousness. Answer: a style of writing that portrays
the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.
◉condescension (tone). Answer: when the writer talks down to the
reader
◉didacticism (tone). Answer: when the writer addresses the
readers as if they must learn something
◉verbal irony (tone). Answer: when there is a contrast between
what is said and what is meant
◉situational irony (tone). Answer: when there is a discrepancy
between what happens and what the reader expects to happen.
,◉dramatic irony. Answer: where there is a contrast between what a
character does or says and what the reader understands to be true
(tone)
◉tone. Answer: the authors attitude toward the writing, reader,
subject, people, places, or events in a work. Can include:
condescension, didacticism, irony, humor, parody, sentimentality
◉parody. Answer: humous or ridiculing imitation of something else
◉sentimentality (tone). Answer: the excessive use of feeling or
emotion
◉perspective. Answer: the scene as viewed through the eyes/mind
of the chosen character. The story, however, can be told from any one
of several points-of-view regardless of the perspective chosen. Can
also include dialogue Ex: first-person...
◉The yearling. Answer: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1939, A book
written about a young boy who raises a baby deer.
◉Island of the Blue Dolphins. Answer: Scott O'Dell, The Ghalas-at
tribe lives on an island until a group of hunters comes and kills over
half of the people. Karana, an Indian girl is left without her parents
and must learn to survive on her own.
, ◉Julie of the Wolves. Answer: Jean Craighead George, a young
eskimo girl runs away and lives with wolves. She tries to rejoin
culture, but runs away again. She eventually goes to town to live with
her dad.
◉The Call of the Wild. Answer: Jack London, a pampered dog (Buck)
adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with
his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who
treats him right; novel, adventure story, setting late 1890s
◉Madeleine L'Engle. Answer: Wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly
Tilting Planet, A Wind in the Door, The Small Rain, 24 Days before
Christmas and other known novels.
◉Animal Farm. Answer: George Orwell, A group of animals mount a
successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them, but their
dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; ,
Fable in which main characters represent political personages in the
conflict of political systems
◉Watership Down. Answer: Richard Adams, heroic fantasy novel
about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver, a young runt rabbit who
is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent
destruction
CERTIFICATION REVIEW SCRIPT 2026
ACCURATE Q&A COLLECTION
◉reciprocal teaching. Answer: Includes four main reading strategies
for comprehending text: Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying,
Summarizing; students take turns assuming the role of teacher;
group effort among teacher and students to bring meaning to text
◉semantic feature analysis. Answer: A graphic organizer using a
grid to compare a series of words or other items on a number of
characteristics.
◉collaborative writing. Answer: instructional approach in which
students work together to plan, draft, revise, and edit compositions
◉process writing. Answer: An approach to writing where learners
are encouraged to brainstorm, plan, draft, re-draft, review, and
"publish" their written work.
,◉RAFT. Answer: a writing strategy that helps students understand
their ROLE as a writer, the AUDIENCE they will address, the varied
FORMAT for writing, and the TOPIC they'll be writing about
◉3-2-1 prompt. Answer: 3 facts
2 questions
1 personal connection
◉stream of consciousness. Answer: a style of writing that portrays
the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.
◉condescension (tone). Answer: when the writer talks down to the
reader
◉didacticism (tone). Answer: when the writer addresses the
readers as if they must learn something
◉verbal irony (tone). Answer: when there is a contrast between
what is said and what is meant
◉situational irony (tone). Answer: when there is a discrepancy
between what happens and what the reader expects to happen.
,◉dramatic irony. Answer: where there is a contrast between what a
character does or says and what the reader understands to be true
(tone)
◉tone. Answer: the authors attitude toward the writing, reader,
subject, people, places, or events in a work. Can include:
condescension, didacticism, irony, humor, parody, sentimentality
◉parody. Answer: humous or ridiculing imitation of something else
◉sentimentality (tone). Answer: the excessive use of feeling or
emotion
◉perspective. Answer: the scene as viewed through the eyes/mind
of the chosen character. The story, however, can be told from any one
of several points-of-view regardless of the perspective chosen. Can
also include dialogue Ex: first-person...
◉The yearling. Answer: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1939, A book
written about a young boy who raises a baby deer.
◉Island of the Blue Dolphins. Answer: Scott O'Dell, The Ghalas-at
tribe lives on an island until a group of hunters comes and kills over
half of the people. Karana, an Indian girl is left without her parents
and must learn to survive on her own.
, ◉Julie of the Wolves. Answer: Jean Craighead George, a young
eskimo girl runs away and lives with wolves. She tries to rejoin
culture, but runs away again. She eventually goes to town to live with
her dad.
◉The Call of the Wild. Answer: Jack London, a pampered dog (Buck)
adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with
his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who
treats him right; novel, adventure story, setting late 1890s
◉Madeleine L'Engle. Answer: Wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly
Tilting Planet, A Wind in the Door, The Small Rain, 24 Days before
Christmas and other known novels.
◉Animal Farm. Answer: George Orwell, A group of animals mount a
successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them, but their
dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; ,
Fable in which main characters represent political personages in the
conflict of political systems
◉Watership Down. Answer: Richard Adams, heroic fantasy novel
about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver, a young runt rabbit who
is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent
destruction
